Chris Fonnesbeck
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Quantitative hack, PyMC Labs
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T. Greg Doucette
1 day ago
Amazing ๐
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lol sign worked
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Is there any way to simply opt out of USPS mail service altogether? It's just pounds of trash every day.
10 days ago
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This is going to be great. Don't miss it if you happen to be at OSDC AI West!
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about 1 month ago
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Chris Fonnesbeck
PyMC Labs
about 2 months ago
What if your next product test didnโt need a human panel? New research by
#PyMC
Labs &
#Colgate-Palmolive
shows LLMs can replicate human survey patterns with 90%+ accuracyโno fine-tuning, no panels, no bias. Read the white paper:
dub.link/ifoZHIR
#SyntheticConsumers
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AI-based Customer Research: Faster & Cheaper Surveys with Synthetic Consumers
https://dub.link/ECczk6S
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Why does VS Code look for local paths when running on a remote server? I know ssh is new technology, but it should be doing better than this.
about 2 months ago
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The day I see an ad on Duolingo will be my last on the platform, 1412-day streak be damned.
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about 2 months ago
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Years ago I passed up an opportunity to work with Nick, and I still regret it. Don't be me.
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about 2 months ago
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Nick Wan
about 2 months ago
The Cincinnati Reds are hiring for our Baseball Ops and Analytics trainee roles! Based in Cincy $20/hr (+ COL stipend for trainees in Cincy)
www.teamworkonline.com/baseball-job...
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Cincinnati Reds
Connect with 1,500+ employers from the NFL, NBA, WNBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, NWSL, college athletics, sports tech startups, agencies, arenas, and more
https://www.teamworkonline.com/baseball-jobs/cincinnati-reds/cincinnati-reds
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Some fresh Van Halen graffiti in East Nashville actually warms my heart.
about 2 months ago
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Halloween decorations in September. Why??
2 months ago
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Jay Jaffe
2 months ago
You are here. (h/t
@seanhowe.bsky.social
)
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polars badly needs a `factorize` function.
#python
2 months ago
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Disney+, Hulu Live TV cancelled. Disney stock sold. Spring break Disney vacation cancelled.
2 months ago
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A nice primer on normalizing flows by PyMC/PyTensor devs Ricardo and Jesse.
pytensor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ga...
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Normalizing Flows in PyTensor โ PyTensor dev documentation
https://pytensor.readthedocs.io/en/latest/gallery/applications/normalizing_flows_in_pytensor.html
2 months ago
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Peg Duthie
3 months ago
Vanderbilt Biostatistics professor Frank Harrell
@f2harrell.bsky.social
is presenting a hybrid seminar on Wednesday 9/17 at 1:30 pm Central that is open to all: "Goal-Driven Flexible Bayesian Design"
#ClinicalTrials
www.vanderbilt.edu/biostatistic...
Photo: Erin O. Smith/VUMC
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Chris Fonnesbeck
PyMC Labs
3 months ago
We just dropped the most comprehensive
#PyMC-Marketing
vs.
#Meridian
๐๐ฎ๐๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ ๐๐จ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฌ๐จ๐ง ever conducted! Check out our findings & code ๐๐
dub.link/CLWnkdf
#MMM
#MarketingMixModel
#PyMCMarketing
#Meridian
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PyMC-Marketing vs. Meridian: A Quantitative Comparison of Open Source MMM Libraries
This benchmark study directly compares PyMC-Marketing and Googleโs Meridian on realistic synthetic datasets, from startup-scale to enterprise-level. Using aligned priors and identical configurations, ...
https://dub.link/CLWnkdf
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For anyone interested in learning about what goes on under the hood of PyMC, this short series of talks is for you! ๐
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3 months ago
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Even Moldova's goal was scored by Norway.
3 months ago
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Rather ironic that google-chrome-stable now core dumps every time I open it.
3 months ago
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That's right.
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Forget New York and Chicago โ the best North American city is in Canada
Compared to the hustle of many of North American cities, Robin McKelvie finds Vancouver to be the USAโs cooler โ quite literally โ Canadian cousin, with a culture that revels in nature and a food scen...
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/north-america/canada/vancouver-city-guide-best-food-drink-travel-feature-b2819943.html
3 months ago
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Gunner Stockton threw for zero touchdowns v Austin Peay? That's concerning.
3 months ago
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All the major LLMs are poor at working with Jupyter Notebooks. All of them. Very strange that they are tripped up by simple JSON.
3 months ago
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Chris Fonnesbeck
PyMC Labs
3 months ago
We had an incredible time at PyData Berlin โจ Such a vibrant community, from the conversations and presentations to the speakers and attendees, the energy was just amazing. A huge thank you to
@pydata.bsky.social
for continuing to nurture a community that inspires and connects us all!๐
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Impressed by how little packaging the Pixel 10 is encumbered with.
3 months ago
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Chris Fonnesbeck
PyMC Labs
3 months ago
๐ค Announcing PyMC Labs x
@fivetran.bsky.social
Partnership: Marketing Mix Models in minutes, not weeks Data prep was the biggest
#MMM
bottleneck. We solved it. โ Direct integration with Fivetran ad_reporting โ Production-grade Bayesian MMMs instantly ๐
dub.link/csv37dq
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If you want to see an LLM grind to a halt, ask it to edit a Jupyter notebook.
3 months ago
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It never stops being funny.
3 months ago
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Well, that was Eze.
3 months ago
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It's Mรผller time
#vwfc
3 months ago
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Subscribe to AppleTV -> watch Severance -> cancel AppleTV
3 months ago
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Thomas + Hugo = ๐ฅ
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4 months ago
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In about an hour, I will be presenting an introductory talk on PyMC for new users. I try to address common problems and introduce the library in a non-technical way (pictures > equations). Feel free to join!
www.meetup.com/data-umbrell...
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[Online] A Tutorial for Getting Started with PyMC, Tue, Aug 12, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
This one-hour tutorial introduces new users to version 5 of PyMC, a powerful Python, open source library for probabilistic programming and Bayesian statistical modeling. Pa
https://www.meetup.com/data-umbrella/events/310039714/?eventOrigin=your_events
4 months ago
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Growing up, the big Brazilian soccer players had flashy names like "Rivaldo", "Romario", or "Falcao". Today we have ... "Kevin".
www.standard.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Fulham submit club-record bid for Brazilian star after Silva demand
Cottagers have gone cold on Reiss Nelson as they step up transfer efforts
https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/fulham-fc-kevin-shakhtar-transfer-news-b1242431.html
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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Why does VS Code hate pixi?
4 months ago
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All. We probably need to control for age in this competition.
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4 months ago
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The new dims module in PyMC makes the specification of complex models much cleaner and less error-prone.
www.pymc.io/projects/doc...
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PyMC dims module โ PyMC 5.25.1 documentation
https://www.pymc.io/projects/docs/en/stable/learn/core_notebooks/dims_module.html#dims-module
4 months ago
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Chris Fonnesbeck
Eric Ma
5 months ago
Ever tried building with the weirdest tech stack and AI? I built a receipt scanner in just over an hour using FastAPI, HTMX, Notion, and Claude Codeโall in the terminal. The results surprised me! Check it out, let me know what you think, and please share or retweet!
buff.ly/TeqvJra
#ai
#devtools
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One hour and eight minutes: Building a receipt scanner with the weirdest tech stack imaginable
written by Eric J. Ma on 2025-07-01 | tags: prototyping ai claude terminal fastapi htmx notion llamabot experimentation expenses
https://ericmjl.github.io/blog/2025/7/1/one-hour-and-eight-minutes-building-a-receipt-scanner-with-the-weirdest-tech-stack-imaginable/
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I was excited about using the Brave browser, until I read about the CEO. Uninstalled.
5 months ago
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5 months ago
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Chris Fonnesbeck
Kai Ryssdal
5 months ago
Your now-regular reminder that no tax cut has ever paid for itself
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You mean the same Americans that elected Donald Trump twice? Shocking.
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5 months ago
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Gravy Yacht
5 months ago
weโre already on the road, why would you change the 3 flat tires now
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5 months ago
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James Fallows
5 months ago
Viewer tips: If you're looking for Iran news on mainstream TV, BBC right now is SO much better than any of the US outlets. Dramatic, and should be studied in journalism world.
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G Elliott Morris
5 months ago
running list of things trump promised during the 2024 campaign: - grocery prices would decrease - working families will get a tax cut - entitlements would be protected - balance the budget and pay down debt - he would end foreign wars
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Apparently elections matter. Might want to pass that along to the 59% folks.
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5 months ago
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The second worst way to ruin a baseball game is to sacrifice bunt with an 0.095 batter hitting behind you.
#SFGiants
5 months ago
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